Children With Asthma
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SINGULAIR AND YOUR CHILD

Managing your child’s asthma symptoms could include having your child take a daily controller medicine. By taking a daily controller medicine, children with asthma can have fewer asthma symptoms and fewer asthma attacks. One daily controller medicine is SINGULAIR, which can help prevent asthma symptoms before they start.

Explore the sections below to find out if there may be more you can do to help control your child’s asthma.

Asthma Medication For Children

Once-a-day SINGULAIR for kids

Learn about SINGULAIR—made with kids in mind.

Possible Side Effects of SINGULAIR

Possible side effects

Learn more about possible side effects.

Asthma in Children

Asthma and children

Learn more about how children with asthma can benefit from a daily controller medicine.

Childhood Asthma

Ask your child's doctor about SINGULAIR

Get questions to find out if SINGULAIR is right for your child.

SINGULAIR is a prescription medicine used to prevent asthma attacks and for long-term treatment of asthma in adults and children 12 months and older.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION

  • You or your child should not take SINGULAIR for relief right away from a sudden asthma attack. Always have your or your child's rescue inhaler medicine with you for asthma attacks. Tell your healthcare provider right away if your or your child's asthma symptoms get worse or if you need, or your child needs, to use rescue inhaler medicine more often for asthma attacks.
  • SINGULAIR may cause serious side effects. Behavior and mood-related changes have been reported: agitation including aggressive behavior or hostility, bad or vivid dreams, depression, disorientation (confusion), feeling anxious, hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not really there), irritability, restlessness, sleepwalking, suicidal thoughts and actions (including suicide), tremor, and trouble sleeping. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have, or your child has, any of these symptoms while taking SINGULAIR.
  • The most common side effects with SINGULAIR include upper respiratory infection, fever, headache, sore throat, cough, stomach pain, diarrhea, earache or ear infection, flu, runny nose, and sinus infection.
  • SINGULAIR should not be taken by people who are sensitive to any of its ingredients.
  • Parents or guardians of a child with phenylketonuria: Note that cherry chewable tablets contain phenylalanine, a component of aspartame.

You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

Please read the Patient Information and discuss it with your doctor. The physician Prescribing Information also is available.

SINGULAIR is a registered trademark of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of  Merck & Co., Inc.
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